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Civitas Ensemble on Live from WFMT

Monday at 8:00 pm

One of the Chicago area’s top chamber groups comes to WFMT’s performance studio for some live music and conversation with Kerry Frumkin as the Monday night series Live from WFMT returns.

Most of the players of Civitas Ensemble are members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, including assistant concertmaster Yuan-Qing Yu. On Monday, Civitas Ensemble with Winston Choi on piano, will play a turn of the century (last century) work by Walter Rabl; also a Trio by Gian Carlo Menotti, and a Piano Quartet by Gabriel Faure.

Listen to Civitas play a movement from the Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A. This performance was recorded in 2011 at Mayne Stage with Yuan-Qing Yu and Kozue Funakoshi on violin, Carol Cook on viola, Kenneth Olsen on cello, and J. Lawrie Blume on clarinet: